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Democrats have a knack for stumbling into trouble with mothers who aren’t in the paid labor force. In the late 1990s, then-Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut said that being a full-time homemaker was a “wonderful luxury” for women who “want to go play golf or go to the club and play cards.” In 2012, Democratic talking head Hilary Rosen had to apologize after saying that Ann Romney, the wife of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, had “never worked a day in her life.” She had raised five sons. And a few months ago, President Barack Obama seemed to suggest that for mothers to leave the labor force for a few years is “not a choice we want...

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